Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)
Pêcheuses de moules à Berneval, côte normand (Mussel-Fishers at Berneval)
1879
Oil on canvas, 176.2 x 130.2 cm
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Mussel-Fishers at Berneval was the last Renoir to enter Albert Barnes‘s collection. He bought the painting in 1942 after coveting it for decades: it had hung in the private collection of the famous impressionist dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who was reluctant to part with it. Renoir painted this idyllic scene of a peasant family gathering mussels during an 1879 visit to the Normandy coast. (BF)
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Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919)
Filles pêcheuses de moules
c.1888–1889
Pola Museum of Art, Hakone